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Originally Posted by caleb72
However, inside is a different story. When it is quite light inside, or I'm reading next to a window during the day, I find lighting the screen halfway improves the look of the screen considerably over my previous Kindle and if I light it just right it's not "glowy" at all, just crisp text on a much lighter grey background.
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This is exactly the way I like it to be. I use the light to improve the look of the screen. I stop increasing it just before the point where it starts to look "glowy", as you describe it. In most places in my house, this point is around setting 12-13.
This is also the reason why I do not like to read in complete darkness. No matter how low I set the screen, it obviously always glows. Reading on the Kindle makes no difference to reading on a tablet, at least not for me. I have to have *some* ambient light, and then I adapt the brightness of the Kindle or tablet to it.
If I read on the Kindle in complete darkness, then the screen becomes some sort of white-blue-ish half-translucent "thing": like liquid light being poured between to sheets of glass, with letters floating in it. For some reason, the fonts are also smaller. They aren't of course, but it looks like that. Yesterday night (yesternight?
) I was reading in bed using my overhead light. I like the Kindle to be set to 12 or 13 to create a "I am reading a very high quality hardback"-experience. As soon as I switch off the light, the fonts seem to become two sizes smaller. I actually have to go in and increase them by two settings to keep the screen readable. It does not matter if I set the Kindle to 5, 13 or even 24. (Higher than 15 isn't even possible because it's just too bright.)
So, I use the Kindle's front light to augment the ambient light to a level at which the screen looks nice to me, not to read in complete darkness. Of course, the front light enables me to read in places where I otherwise would have needed to use a clip-on light.